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- United States Army Corps of Engineers; Council on Environmental Quality; CEQ; environmental protection; FEIS; Environmental Impact Statement; Galveston (T.X.); coastal zone management (1)
- United States; Alaska; Pribilof Islands; fur seal; Marine Mammal Protection Act; fishery law and legislation (1)
- United States; acid deposition; sulfur dioxide emissions; nitrogen oxide emissions; environmental protection; Clean Air Act; air quality (1)
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A Review Of The Management And Current Status Of Northern Fur Seals Of The Pribilof Islands, Holly Hansell
A Review Of The Management And Current Status Of Northern Fur Seals Of The Pribilof Islands, Holly Hansell
Theses and Major Papers
The North pacific fur seals of Alaska's Pribilof Islands have been subjected to commercial harvest for nearly 200 years. The harvest has been regulated under international agreement almost continuously since 1911; first under the 1911 North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, and following that under the 1957 Interim Convention on Conservation of North Pacific Fur Seals. Both Conventions banned pelagic sealing and divided the restricted land harvest among the four member states, the United States, Canada, Japan, and the Soviet Union. Management under the 1911 convention resulted in a steady increase in the severely depleted fur seal herd, restoring the population …
Acid Deposition: Legal And Political Controversies, Noelle F. Lewis
Acid Deposition: Legal And Political Controversies, Noelle F. Lewis
Theses and Major Papers
Acid rain is more accurately referred to as acid deposition since acidity is deposited in both the wet and dry form. Acid rain results from the conversion of sulfur and nitrogen gases to sulfates and nitrates, respectively. In the United States, sulfur compounds are responsible for about two-thirds of the acidity in precipitation; nitrogen compounds, one-third. In 1980, man-made sources in the United States emitted approximately 26 million tons of sulfur dioxide and 21 million tons nitrogen oxides. Within the United States, the major sources of sulfur dioxide emissions, approximately 90-95% of the total, are electric generating utilities, industrial boilers, …
Analysis Of A Worst Case Oil Spill Eis, Galveston, Gail Elizabeth Meisner
Analysis Of A Worst Case Oil Spill Eis, Galveston, Gail Elizabeth Meisner
Theses and Major Papers
On July 8, 1980, the Galveston district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) issued the permits required for the construction of an onshore deepwater port. The proposed port expansion project has been the subject of extensive controversy and litigation. The primary conflict has centered on the exclusion of a worst case oil spill analysis, as required by recent Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations. A rational-deductive approach to this decision leads to the conclusion that the economically and environmentally favored choice would have been to include the worst case analysis in the initial Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Because …